SYSTEMS AND SERVICES

ARCTIC manages Georgia State’s advanced cyberinfrastructure, which includes high-performance computing clusters, high-performance data storage systems, research networking as well as on-premise cloud and commercial cloud computing. ARCTIC also facilitates advanced scientific computing by providing consultancy services in software development, software hardening, performance optimization, and science gateway development. ARCTIC resources are mostly funded through federal and state external funding agencies. In addition to externally funded resources, ARCTIC manages a condominium cluster, where individual researchers have the ability to bring their own resources and share it with the community.

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Each Year ARCTIC resources provide 25 Million CPU hours and 600,000 GPU hours.

Condominium Model

Through Georgia State's condominium service, researchers may invest in HPC resources (compute nodes or storage) that are placed in Georgia State’s common HPC resource. The condominium HPC model presents researchers with greater flexibility and power with greatly reduced overhead and management requirements as compared to owning and operating individual, standalone clusters. Participants in the condo service have full priority on the invested resources, plus they gain access to additional cluster resources (including low-latency networking and centrally managed applications). Participants in the condo service agree to share unused resources with the rest of the Georgia State community.

Efficient and secure data transfer with Globus

Transfer data from anywhere in the world reliably and securely using Globus high-performance data transfer. Globus uses GridFTP protocol to transfer between two endpoints. It also provides more reliable high-performance file transfer and synchronization than scp or rsync over wide area networks. Globus automatically selects appropriate settings for concurrency and parallelism on every transfer task. Documentation

Manage Data with iRODs

IRODs provide data virtualization for storage infrastructure. This allows data owners to get ownership of their data regardless of the underlying storage system. The plugin architecture supports microservices, storage systems, authentication, networking, databases, rule engines, and an extensible API. Documentation

Interactive access from the web browser

Access powerful ARCTIC computing infrastructure through a web browser. Access your favorite applications, MATLAB, R, Python, SAS, STATA, and more through a web browser, even from your smartphone. Submit batch jobs to the cluster and let it run in the background. Documentation

Flexible computing with k8s

Kubernetes infrastructure provides a highly flexible environment to deploy various workloads efficiently. With k8s implementation, we can dynamically create spark clusters to meet specific needs. Flexible in-house object storage solution provides data back end.

Support for Accelerated computing

Many tools are available to support accelerated computing and deep learning. Online profiling and monitoring are a few key highlights.

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Systems and Services

SYSTEMS AND SERVICES